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Something of an experiment - DW the Print Version
01-01-2006, 02:29 AM
This is what happens when a frustrated graphic designer armed with a copy of Adobe InDesign gets bored:
fnord.sandwich.net/dw2/dw2.pdf (1.5 MB)
This is a printable version of DW2's first ten chapters, all nicely laid out and formatted for 5.5"x8.5" pages - about the same size as a trade paperback or hardcover. 352pp. I figure the final pagecount will be around 550pp once I get the last five parts formatted and placed.
So far, I think it looks pretty good. The copyright/credit pages are going to kick my ass by the time I'm done, though. Especially the song credits. Oy. %P---
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Re: Something of an experiment - DW the Print Version
01-03-2006, 10:26 PM
Nicely done. I read through the first half of this over the weekend and browsed the rest, and it looks very nice. I see some places where you missed changing asterisk-delimitation into italics, and a couple other places that were supposed to be italics that maybe I forgot to delimit, so you didn't convert them. Other than that, it looks very very good.
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Re: Something of an experiment - DW the Print Version
01-04-2006, 03:06 AM
Quote: I see some places where you missed changing asterisk-delimitation into italics, and a couple other places that were supposed to be italics that maybe I forgot to delimit, so you didn't convert them.
Well, it's entirely possible that I overlooked delimited words and then removed the asterisks, so it's not necessarily something *you* forgot to delimit. In theory, the text should be exactly the same as the copies on the DW2 page (minus title cards and chapter credits). Where it isn't is entirely my error.---
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Re: Something of an experiment - DW the Print Version
01-04-2006, 06:42 AM
I don't have an easy way of doing a redline between them, and I don't have the inclination to do it by eye, so I guess we'll never know.
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Re: Something of an experiment - DW the Print Version
01-05-2006, 02:02 AM
Oh, I'm sure there's somebody obsessive-compulsive enough out there to do a redline.. but it's not me. ---
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Re: Something of an experiment - DW the Print Version
01-05-2006, 08:25 AM
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Re: Something of an experiment - DW the Print Version
01-15-2006, 10:36 AM
(raises hand) I happen to be just that obsessive...
...but it'll take a while before I can clear enough of my other obsessions to get to this one.
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Re: Re: Something of an experiment - DW the Print Version
01-16-2006, 05:14 PM
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Re: Re: Something of an experiment - DW the Print Version
02-13-2006, 08:52 AM
Another text dump - in this case, I converted DW2 to a Palm reader format - specifically, Mobipocket...
Drunkards_Walk-Full.pdb
(Note - I just called it that without putting the step on, since it is the only full step so far...)
I also stripped out all the copyrights.
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Re: Re: Something of an experiment - DW the Print Version
02-13-2006, 06:27 PM
As I recally, Offsides has done much the same thing -- with EPU stuff as well as mine.
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Re: Re: Something of an experiment - DW the Print Version
03-12-2006, 12:05 AM
That would be (mostly) correct. I converted everything I had acces to at the time to iSilo format, by way of doing HTML conversions first(!). Of course, that was several years ago, when I was sill using my Palm religiously - now I just have a personal laptop
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Re: Re: Something of an experiment - DW the Print Version
03-13-2006, 09:55 PM
Welcome back, Josh!
My condolences to both you on your losses.
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